Uromyces guerkeanus Hennings, 1893

Fungi, Basidiomycota. Pucciniomycetes, Pucciniales, Pucciniaceae

on Lotus

gall

No host plant alternation, uredinia and telia. Uredinia cinnamon to chocolate brown, generally epiphyllous, often in a circle around a central sorus; spores 21-22 x 22-23 µm with 3-6 germination pores. Telia blackish brown; spores 2-celled, 18-21 x 20-23 µm, wall to a varable degree with warts, arranged in rows.

hostplants

Fabaceae, narrowly monophagous

Lotus arabicus, creticus, ornithopodoides.

references

Brandenburger (1985a: 289), Gäumann (1959a), Losa Quintana (1972b).

07/12/2016